The horror of the reprogrammed download Guthrie (see Sayre And Guthrie) continues when a Fireball employee confronts the reprogrammed version - an exact copy of Guthrie except that it makes excuses for the Avantists who have killed another employee. In other words, not an exact copy but a travesty. After this, anyone would prefer to converse with an avowed enemy of Guthrie.
The horrified employee, Aulard, says:
"'Anson Guthrie would never betray as you 'ave betrayed. Many people called 'im devil, but none ever called 'im Judas.'" (p. 111)
Does that count as two Biblical references? Or just one? Or even just none on the ground that both "devil" and "Judas" have become parts of our language? (In India, devas are gods, not devils. When two Aryan groups parted company, the gods of one group became the demons of the other.)
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Kaor, Paul!
But I believe angels to be actual, non corporeal, intelligent beings. And that, therefore, some word from human languages had to be found for them, whether evil or good angels. I think that very word, "angel," came from Greek and that in turn from translating the Hebrew term for "messenger."
I think most people in Western or Westernized nations would understand where "Judas" came from, the betrayer of Christ. Not sure what was the exact term in Hebrew for fallen angels (that we now render as "devil").
I agree the reprogrammed downloaded "copy" of Guthrie was a DEPRAVED travesty of the real download.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
If we call an atheist, "Judas!," he doesn't say, "I don't believe that stuff!" He takes offense. Some words are very deeply embedded in language and the collective consciousness.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
But I think most atheists in Western nations would be offended at being called a "traitor." The term "Judas" does not have to mean BELIEF in Christ. But, as you said, some words are deeply embedded in our languages and cultural background.
Ad astra! Sean
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